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posted by ThomasCWilliams at 10:03 pm (EST) on Jul 4, 2012
Here are two links to a very good 1950 edition of the TJ translation for about $20:
http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=4012920289&searchurl=an%3Dv...
http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=4023436926&searchurl=an%3Dv...
The 1950 Truth Seeker Press editions are high quality. Most come with a very sturdy kelvar wrapper that keeps them clean. I've got about a dozen in my collection. The two examples above are well priced at $20. I've paid more.
These editions also include Volney's Law of Nature and Volney's Answer to Dr. Priestly. The first is a follow-up to Ruins of Empires. In the Ruins, Volney says religious conflicts begin because no religion can prove their most basic premise--whether or not God exists. So Law of Nature defines a system of morality based on what can be proven--the individual's desire to survive. The second, Volney's Answer to Dr. Priestly, is a tour de force of calm, well reasoned rebuttals. You ever hear of the Alien Act during the Adams Administration? Volney was the most famous alien in the US at that time. He was attacked in the Federalist Press as an athiest and quit the US just before the Alien Act went into effect. Volney's Answer to Dr. Priestly responds to charges of athiesm raised against Volney by the British scientist Priestly.
Hope this gets you going and don't hesitate to send more questions. Many thanks too for the link--I'll be sure to check that out!
Best Regards,
TCW
posted by ThomasCWilliams at 12:35 pm (EST) on Jul 4, 2012
posted by casebrad at 9:22 pm (EST) on Aug 16, 2010
Now you are beginning to educate me since I don't know Diane Ackerman nor Jayne Anne Phillips. I do not need more to read though, so I'll look and maybe try another day.
Having nothing else to say, I'll depart, but it was nice to have a word from you.
Peace,
Peggy
posted by LizzieD at 10:21 pm (EST) on Jan 20, 2010
As to *Special Topics* --- I enjoyed it while I was reading it, but the ending was contrived and pretty much left a nasty taste in my mind. If you don't demand that what you read be an organic whole, I'd say pick it up. I didn't feel I wasted my time with it, but then, I reread all kinds of trash. (But it's my trash and therefore, good trash.)
I also note that your huge list of groups is pretty much of an equivalent size to my huge list of favorites. I recognize and like or love all of them except Mark Kurlansky.......well, I haven't read any Frederic Morton, but I think I know who he is. I'm intrigued that Edna S.V.M. is the only woman on your list.
And now, that's something of a conversation!
Peggy
posted by LizzieD at 6:19 pm (EST) on Dec 12, 2009
I'm not sure how I got here, but I see my name as #2 on your weighted list of members with your books, and yet I don't recall your name on my list at all. Our libraries are almost the same size too. I don't understand. Maybe you didn't buy mysteries by the pound when you were younger.....
I do understand and applaud your comments about your library, so I wanted to speak. Now I have.
Hope to meet you sometime in some of the groups in which we both participate.
Peggy
posted by LizzieD at 3:39 pm (EST) on Nov 28, 2009
I should also have edited my comments. sorry for the glitches.
posted by robertsgirl at 2:02 pm (EST) on Aug 19, 2009
I should edit my profile. All my books are in LT, including the bunch I just bought. Have tryed to quit, but ABE, is a click away, and I can walk to Borders. My real downfall is reading reviews, not ones here, the real good stuff that runs to 7 pages and brings in all the history and everybody else's opinion.
I do the same about # of people who have my books. It is fun.
posted by robertsgirl at 2:01 pm (EST) on Aug 19, 2009
posted by mkunruh at 9:29 pm (EST) on Jun 28, 2009
posted by mkunruh at 9:21 pm (EST) on Jun 28, 2009
Nice to see you here.
posted by mkunruh at 8:18 am (EST) on Jun 16, 2009
posted by NativeRoses at 5:24 pm (EST) on Jun 12, 2009
Jim
posted by jwhenderson at 6:01 pm (EST) on May 3, 2009
Jim
posted by jwhenderson at 3:16 pm (EST) on Apr 30, 2009
and don’t forget to join in my Book Quiz.
- TT
posted by TheTortoise at 12:31 pm (EST) on Mar 10, 2009
We are so glad you could join us again for some more great book reads!
vintage_books
PS: You might want to take a look at a book in my Library called: Life in London and than Google it on Google Books - it appears that the plates are listed but not the maps.
posted by vintage_books at 2:59 pm (EST) on Dec 24, 2008